Frozen

SK: Hester and Abigail both lie very well.

                (8) Abigail has “endless capacity for dissembling”

                Hester doesn't reveal who the father is the entire time. 

 

In class today Sarah drew the parallel that Hester and Abigail lie extremely well even If their reasons for doing so are opposites. Hester does not reveal who the father is in order to protect the one she loves, Dimmesdale. In her efforts to protect herself from being accused of witchcraft, Abigail points fingers at other people and ruins the lives of many with her web of lies.

I would like to connect their ability to lie to a character from the new animated Disney movie Frozen. In the movie, there are two princesses and the older one has the ability to turn anything she touches into ice or snow. She does not know where her abilities came from or what she is capable of.

When they are very small, the older sister, Elsa, accidentally hurts her younger sister, Ana, with her powers. Elsa accidentally froze part of her sister’s heart and her parents take her to some trolls in the woods who same Ana and erase her memory so that she does not remember her sister’s powers. After this, Elsa’s parents make her keep her powers a secret from the whole world by hiding in her room.

Elsa keeps them a secret in order to protect her family’s name. Also, she loves her sister so much and cannot imagine accidentally hurting her again.

Elsa is similar to both Hester and Abigail because it her efforts to conceal her true identity from her sister, she protects her, but also crushes her emotionally. Hester is looking out for the ones she loves by lying, just like Elsa. Abigail hurts people emotionally and physically and Elsa makes her sister depressed when she breaks off their friendship and also physically hurts Ana even though they are both unintentional.

I highly suggest this movie!

Gwyneth